Inspired by the navigation concept in Kourosh Dini's book Creating Flow with Omnifocus. It is sometimes more effective to have a navigation task that shows up on the Forecast perspective instead of a long list of individual tasks contained in a project which ultimately results in a long forecast or today perspective. Furthermore I find it helpful in getting a larger picture of the projects I need to touch daily.
This plugin creates a new Task inside an "Engaged" Project with a link back to the selected Project where the automation was triggered.
- Use OmniFocus 3.8+ Professional.
- Download and unzip this repository.
- On Mac: Go to Automation menu option and choose Configure. Right-click on either "On My Mac" or "OmniFocus in iCloud Drive" and choose "Reveal in Finder". Move the plugin file
engage.omnijsto the folder.
Select a project in your OmniFocus database, then choose Engage from the automation dropdown (or add the plugin to your toolbar). A new Task is created inside your "Engaged" project. Upon completion the plugin navigates to the "Engaged" project which will allow you to set other metadata for the Task. I personally will sometimes add a repeat.
Following Kourosh's method, I also have a "Parked" project set to paused to house projects I can't work on right now.